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Wikipedia germany closed

Judge Shuts Down German Wikipedia

German Wikipedia site goes offline after lawsuit : A german judge ordered the closing of WikiPedia German version .

A German Court has ordered the German-language version of Wikipedia shut down after the family of deceased phreaker/hacker “Tron” sued Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. for using the deceased’s full name in an entry. Currently, visitors to wikipedia.de are greeted with a notice that the site has been taken offline as the result of a provisional court order.

The association Wikimedia Germany – Society for the promotion of free knowledge

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a web browser. The project began on January 15, 2001 as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia has more than 3,130,000 articles, including more than 926,000 in the English-language version, and as of January 2006 it has more than 808,000 registered users.